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I'm new to Rust, and I am trying to understand dyn object lifetimes when inside a Box or NonNull. My goal is to write an adapter for a C API. I have a few C struct types: #[repr(C)] struct ConcreteA { // generated by…
Hi rustaceans! I wanted to build an arena allocator as a little exercise for myself and I came up with this: use std::{alloc::{Layout, alloc, dealloc, handle_alloc_error}, ptr::NonNull}; use std::cell::Cell; pub struct…
VibeKode Netherlands 2026: How To Write Great Code with LLMs #vibeless conference talk VibeKode Netherlands 2026 Utrecht, Netherlands 7 October 2026 https://vibekode.it/agentic-engineering/java-llm-clean-code/ Fewer…
I'm trying to understand #![feature(specialization)] vs. #![feature(min_specialization)] to inform the design of my types, but I haven't been able to find any novice-accessible documentation. How do the two differ?…
If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more
I was rewriting the copy on one of my GPU comparison pages when I noticed something I probably should have checked much earlier. The FAQ people could read and the FAQ in the page's structured data were completely…
Why Voice Matters in Modern Web Apps If you’re building a chatbot, a language‑learning tool, or a virtual tour guide, you’ll quickly discover that text‑only interactions feel flat. Adding spoken output turns a static UI…
Why a Text‑to‑Speech Chrome Extension? If you spend a lot of time reading articles, documentation, or long forum threads, a quick way to listen instead of scrolling can boost productivity dramatically. With the rise of…
A URL is a name, and names get reused. Replace the bytes behind https://repo.example.org/order-processor.jar and every permission granted to that URL still applies, now to code nobody audited. So far in this series,…
petite — how coding agents work, built from scratch Understand how coding agents like Claude Code work inside by building one: a complete agent in 565 lines of Python, one concept per commit: tool calling, the agent…
I built testpageforprinter.com, a free set of printer test sheets (color, black and white, CMYK, alignment, nozzle check, scale, photo, duplex). Most "printer test page" sites hand you one generic image. I wanted sheets…
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Hey friend, picture this: you’ve just spent the afternoon wrestling with a nasty bug in your Node.js app. You pass an object to a helper function, mutate it inside, and suddenly the original…
Chron passed 10,000 npm downloads on September 30th. 10,158 as of this morning, five months after the first publish on May 8th. I build a tool whose only job is to tell the difference between this was recorded and this…
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
When I started building ffetch, I had a fairly simple goal: make HTTP requests more resilient without turning a fetch wrapper into a complicated piece of machinery. Retries, backoffs, circuit breaking, and the other…
When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” …read more
MIT engineers developed a soft robot that can flap through water in response to flashes of light. Credits: Photo: Melanie Gonick, MIT via MIT MIT engineers have developed a thin, muscle-powered swimming robot. The…
There are 20,422 tokens issued on the XRP Ledger and only 1,434 of them traded today. A screener is how you tell those two groups apart. Here is a complete one. No dependencies, runs on any Node 18+. The whole thing…
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built StudyBuddy is a browser-based productivity + learning app I built for my friend — a college student who was juggling exam…
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